Print: Baxter CL 99 - Published exclusively for a rare book ‘History of the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East’ so only exists in small numbers.
It is a folding print so there is a light fold down the centre of the page with a ‘flap’ stuck to reverse where it was tipped into the book.
The Picture Printer of 1924 states “It shows the first Christian boarding school for women established by the Society. Miss Aldersey, in Chinese costume, is seen nursing a baby. She had altogether twenty-six girls. At the head of the class is the teacher, and on each side are Ati and Kit, two girls Miss Aldersey brought from Java, where she settled first and stayed five years. Ningpo was one of the five commercial ports open to foreigners; the others being Canton, Amoy, Foo Chow, and Shanghai. Engraved under the print, in the centre, in one line, is "Facsimile of a painting of Miss Aldersey's school at Ningpo. By a Chinese artist." Below that in one line is: "Printed in colours for the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East."
On the right is "Baxter's Patent Colour Printing, 11, Northampton Square"; and on the left is "Published by Edward Suter, 32, Cheapside."
Date: 1847
Approx. size (cm ht x w): 14.7 x 18.9 (full sheet)
State: On full folding double page as issued in the book with strip to the centre of the reverse so that it can be tipped into the book as, because it is a double page, it couldn’t be bound in
Condition: Minor spotting to sheet edges else excellent